Abdul al-Ziphr - The Slave of No One

This wine-drenched Christmas-tide we spent a good few recent evenings with a certain Saudi Prince-ling (who shall remain nameless) indulging the wicked Western Jesus culture of wine drinking - although he (the Prince-ling) refrained, of course, being more than adequately inebriated on money and power.

I thought he was being the typical smart-alec rich person, with this silly plastic Swatch item on his wrist, until he casually remarked that it was made entirely of a single piece of corundum crystal - and so I took a second look.

Visually, in fact, it's quite a nice piece... On second glance I realized it was much better looking than your average Swatch watch. 

It was of course, the latest Hublot Unico Red Ruby - lab-grown crystalline aluminium oxide mixed with chromium: ...IE., a ruby. A whole solid ruby casing for the Swiss watch mechanism.

And we are a little like this ourselves on this Blogspot - not exactly what everything at first appears.

You see, the matter one has to be careful of these days, is not to expose things, formats, details, even style, in the open public channels, because unscrupulous and misguided people just plain steal what you are doing whole-cloth and then replicate it in the exact same format but pushed as if it were a viral phenomenon - thereby damaging what you are actually doing by not being able to provide or to carry forward on the substance. 

So, for those of you are relatively new to these pages, we do not say everything here, and nor do we really explain what we are doing precisely - but only offer a few directions. 

As far as the Saudi poker advances thing is concerned, those who have registered formally, get directed to private web-sites and web addresses which cover what is going on in detail.

Lanique is a very Arabic Damask and Taif rose-essence liqueur...

We're operating in a big - nay, a HUGE market space. It's not just that there are 2 billion Muslims who are allowed to play this Baloot game and its money-prizes format, but the whole entire Western casino business would like in... ...and can't get in. And not to mention that what they would really like is to be able to replicate the staking advances process that is inherent to the Gulf B aloot championships, and be able to apply it to the many more billions of Western poker players.

So, don't mistake where you are, and what you are reading...